Eugen von Knilling

Eugen von Knilling (1 August 1856-20 October 1927) was Minister President of Bavaria from 1922 to 1924, succeeding Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Koefering und Schoenberg and preceding Heinrich Held.

Biography
Eugen von Knilling was born in Munich, Bavaria in 1856, and he served as Minister for Education of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1912 to 1918. From 1920 to 1922, he was a member of the Bavarian Parliament for the BVP, and he became Minister President of Bavaria in 1922, serving for two years. In September 1923, he declared martial law and gave Gustav von Kahr dictatorial powers, and he was briefly imprisoned by Rudolf Hess during the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. In 1924, he resigned, exasperated with politics, and returned to a civil service post. He died in 1927.